
Cyndi Lauper is a Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning songwriter and performing artist with global record sales in excess of 50 million. Her iconic voice, influential punk glamor, and infectious live shows have catapulted her to stardom. Lauper won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist with her first album, She’s So Unusual, and became the first woman in history to have four top-five singles from a debut album including her anthem “Girls Just Want To Have Fun.” Lauper has released ten additional studio albums, featuring classics like “Time After Time” and “True Colors,” and she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2025. She is also a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee and NY Times best-selling author. In 2013, Lauper became the first solo woman to win the Tony for Best Original Score (music and lyrics) for Kinky Boots. She also won her second Grammy, for Best Musical Theater Album, in 2013. Lauper spent much of 2024 and 2025 on her triumphant, 68-show Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour. The widely celebrated international tour of arenas and amphitheatres concluded with two nights at the Hollywood Bowl, joined by special guests Joni Mitchell, Cher, Angelique Kidjo, John Legend, SZA, Mickey Guyton, Trombone Shorty, Brandi Carlile, Billie Eilish and Jake Wesley Rogers. The concerts were filmed for A GRAMMY® Salute to Cyndi Lauper: Live from the Hollywood Bowl, a television special broadcast on CBS. A feature length documentary film on Lauper’s remarkable life and career – Let The Canary Sing – debuted at the 2023 Tribeca Festival and is streaming on Paramount+. Lauper hosted her first-ever residency in Las Vegas in 2026 and is currently working on a Broadway Musical adaptation of the 1988 hit film Working Girl.
Additional 2026 highlights include a career-spanning auction of pieces from Cyndi’s personal collection presented by esteemed auction house Bonhams. The artfully curated sale – comprised of costumes, fashion, instruments, awards, and memorabilia from across four decades – will include a public exhibition in New York, with live and online auctions to follow.